Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson - Rick Hanson, Ph.D., Forrest Hanson

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Ep. 22: Secure and Insecure Attachment Jun 04, 2018

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Attachment Theory is one of the most important frameworks in psychology. Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore why this theory is so relevant for everyday life, and how adults who may have had challenging childhood relationships can become more securely attached in the here and now.

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Timestamps:

1:00: The spectrum of confidence.

2:10: How does confidence “get into” the brain?

4:30: Learning confidence.

5:45: Why do we care so much about the opinions of other people?

10:30: The link between social and physical pain.

12:45: Secure and insecure attachment.

20:00: Attaching differently to different kinds of people.

23:50: How to become more securely attached.

30:30: Why does creating a coherent narrative help us become more securely attached?

35:50: Being someone others can securely attach to.

40:40: Recap

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Ep. 21: How to Be Happy for Other People May 28, 2018

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There is one form of happiness that is always available: happiness for others. Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how feelings of altruistic joy can be a powerful antidote for experiences of disappointment and envy.

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Timestamps:

0:30: Why is happiness for others such a reliable resource?

1:20: Why is feeling happy for others good for us?

3:15: Finding happiness for difficult people.

5:40: Mending relationships through happiness for others.

7:50: The naturalness of envy and jealousy.

12:15: Letting people land.

17:05: Working through blocks to altruistic joy.

22:15: Recap

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Ep. 19: Take in the Good May 14, 2018

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So many good things happen to us that we don't take the time to fully take in. Dr. Hanson and Forrest look at the role fully taking in the good things in life has in the process of building mental strengths.

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Timestamps:

0:20: Why focus on taking pleasure.

1:45: The many little opportunities to take pleasure.

4:05: The psychological benefits of pleasure.

6:50: Why do so many people struggle with taking pleasure?

9:45: Consumption vs. appreciation

13:00: How can we get better at taking pleasure?

16:00: Finding pleasure through relating.

19:30: Recap

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Ep. 18: Why Gratitude Is a Gift to Yourself May 07, 2018

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We think of gratitude as a gift to others, but it's often a wonderful gift to ourselves. Dr. Hanson and Forrest move on to the fifth of the twelve strengths they’ll be covering during this series: Gratitude. During this episode they explore the role of positive emotions generally, and particularly the value of “thankfulness.”

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Timestamps:

1:00: Why use “gratitude” as a blanket term for positive emotions?

1:45: What benefits do positive emotions have for mental health?

5:55: Why did you choose to focus your work on increasing positive experiences rather than reducing negative ones?

8:15: What are the psychological benefits of “thankfulness?”

12:20: Critiques of telling people to ‘just be grateful for what they have.’

17:00: Dealing with blocks to thankfulness.

23:30: How can we become more thankful?

28:25: Using gratitude to move into agency.

31:00: Recap

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Ep. 20: Forming a Healthy Relationship with Goals May 05, 2018

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How can we set and stick to our goals without getting overly attached to them or punishing ourselves if we backslide? Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how we can feel more successful by noticing the many small goals we accomplish each day, and fully internalizing that experience so it becomes a lasting resource.

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Timestamps:

0:50: Why is having a healthy relationship with our goals so important for mental health?

4:30: How can we achieve a more healthy relationship with our goals?

6:35: The social pressures that help us feel unsuccessful.

8:30: What are process goals?

9:55: What are outcome goals?

10:20: The many opportunities to meet our goals.

11:40: Hacking the natural pleasure systems in the brain.

14:25: If we have so many opportunities to experience success, why don’t we?

17:50: What about when we aren’t successful? How can we better manage those feelings of failure?

21:30: Risking the “dreaded experience.”

24:30: Isn’t the fear of failure really motivating though?

29:50: Recap

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Ep. 17: Relating to Your Body Apr 30, 2018

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Learn how to form a more positive relationship with your body by accepting, nurturing, and appreciating it. Dr. Hanson and Forrest discuss key elements of the strength of Vitality, and how it relates to Grit.

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Timestamps:

0:50: How does the physical resource of “vitality” impact the mental strength of “grit”?

2:10: How accepting the body helps us nurture the body.

4:10: Why is it so hard for people to accept their bodies?

8:10: How can we become more accepting of our bodies?

11:45: A practice for accepting the body.

14:00: The importance of appreciating the body.

16:30: A practice for thanking the body.

18:30: How can we form good habits around our physical practices?

22:10: Taking action on any given day, focusing on your effort rather than results.

24:15: Recap

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Ep. 16: Using Your Fierceness Apr 23, 2018

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Dr. Hanson and Forrest talk about a particularly challenging aspect of the strength of determination: fierceness. They explore how the ‘feral’ parts of our mind can be a powerful resource, and how we can use that inner strength rather than be used by it.

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Timestamps:

0:40: What does “fierceness” mean?

3:20: How fierceness fuels determination.

5:20: Is how we think about fierceness defined by our individual experience?

6:20: Different ways to think about the ‘feral’ experience.

8:45: The difficulty in articulating this material.

9:15: Using all the material in the psyche as a potential resource.

12:00: Pitfalls relating to fierceness.

16:20: The burden of proof when being fierce.

18:00: The two pitfalls related to fierceness.

19:30: Increasing our comfort with fierceness.

24:50: Strengthening our own cores.

27:25: Taming the beast by allowing it to run.

28:55: Recap

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Ep. 15: How to Become More Determined Apr 18, 2018

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On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest continue their focus on the strength of Grit with determination. Particularly, they look at the different aspects of determination, and explore how we can grow each of them over time.

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Timestamps:

0:35: How “determination” relates to grit.

2:00: Being determined to a fault.

2:50: What determination is made up of.

3:55: Being resolved toward a goal.

8:00: Balancing patience with agency.

9:30: Realistic expectations enabling patience.

11:45: How much patience is too much?

12:30: The marshmallow test.

15:00: Distress tolerance.

16:25: How can you help yourself enjoy persistence?

21:30: What do we mean by “fierceness?”

23:15: Issues with fierceness.

24:15: Recap.

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Ep. 14: The Power of Agency Apr 09, 2018

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On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson begins a new focus on the fourth of the twelve strengths he’ll be covering throughout this series: Grit. Particularly, this episode explores how to grow agency – an aspect of grit where we feel like a cause rather than an effect.

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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!

Timestamps:

0:30: What is grit?

0:50: How does physical grit support psychological grit?

4:45: Can we grow grit?

5:45: Why agency is important for growing grit.

6:45: How agency fights against “learned helplessness.”

9:30: How can we “unlearn” learned helplessness?

16:10: What can we do when we ACTUALLY are helpless?

18:00: Being realistic about the amount of power we have over our lives.

19:30: Finding small ways to express agency.

21:00: Focusing on causes rather than effects.

24:55: Recap.

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Ep. 13: Remove the Bad with the Good Apr 02, 2018

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Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest discuss "linking" - how we can use new, positive experiences to soften and eventually replace old, negative ones.

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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!

Timestamps:

1:20: What is linking?

2:20: An example of linking.

3:50: How does linking work in the brain?

5:50: How removing old, painful experiences works in the brain.

8:30: How we can remove old pains.

10:10: Quick recap

11:05: The two opportunities to remove negative material.

13:20: The two problematic ways people deal with upsets.

14:05: The better way to approach upsetting situations.

15:20: Matching the right positive experiences to the negative experience.

16:00: The pitfalls of linking.

17:55: Why negative material isn’t “bad.”

18:30: The third option found in linking.

19:45: The difference between wounds and deficits.

20:30: The three levels of engaging negative material.

23:30: Pulling the tip of the root.

24:00: How to talk to your young experiences.

27:10: The three conditions for linking.

29:25: Recap

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